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Premier League Recap: Foxes Extend Lead As Hammers Stun Everton

Tottenham 1-1 Arsenal
Alexis Sanchez scored a 74th-minute equaliser as 10-man Arsenal prevented Tottenham going top of the Premier League in a thrilling 2-2 draw at White Hart Lane on Saturday lunchtime.

The two sides could not be separated in what was billed as one of the biggest derbies in the history of the fierce rivals and had to settle for a 2-2 draw.

Coquelin was sent off for this rash challenge on Kane

Aaron Ramsey opened the scoring for the visitors with a cute flick but, after Francis Coquelin saw red for the Gunners, Toby Alderweireld and Harry Kane turned the game around inside two minutes.

Arsenal, who lost from a winning position against Swansea on Wednesday, kept plugging away and levelled through Alexis Sanchez’s first league goal since October – meaning Leicester have the chance to further extend their lead at the top on Saturday evening.

Watford 0-1 Leicester
Leicester City went five points clear at the top of the Premier League after Riyad Mahrez scored a stunning goal to claim a 1-0 win against Watford at Vicarage Road.

Riyad Mahrez's stunner puts Leicester at the league summit with a 5 point lead

After Tottenham and Arsenal played out a thrilling 2-2 draw at White Hart Lane earlier on Saturday, Claudio Ranieri’s side knew a victory at Watford would move them five points clear with nine games remaining.

And the fearless Foxes made no mistake with Mahrez, a £400,000 signing from French second division side Le Havre, scoring the only goal of the game with a spectacular strike after 56 minutes.

Manchester City 4-0 Aston Villa
Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho was in action on Saturday though he could not replicate his goal scoring form in Manchester City’s 4-0 win over Aston Villa at the Etihad Stadium.

Iheanacho who scored a hat-trick against the visitors in their last meeting came in as a second half substitute in Saturday’s game.

Aguero netted a brace for City in the second half to take his tally to 17 for the season

The first half of Saturday’s game was barren but in the second half, Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero and Raheem Sterling helped City to a 4-0 lead in a little over 20 minutes.

With Pellegrini perhaps sensing an opportunity to improve the goal difference, Kelechi Iheanacho then came on to keep up the pressure.

The Nigerian immediately won a penalty as he was tripped by Ciaran Clark but Aguero struck the spot-kick against the base of the post.

With the win City have for now cut the gap with Leicester to seven points.

Chelsea appeared to be on their way to a fourth straight win – and about to leapfrog Stoke in the table – thanks to a memorable goal from youngster Bertrand Traore.

But in the 85th minute Diouf, who had missed two gilt-edged chances in the first half, made amends by taking advantage of a rare Thibaut Courtois slip to snatch a deserved point.

Bertrand Traore who is from Burkina Faso had a good game as he started in place of Diego Costa

Nemanja Matic played in Traore five yards outside the Stoke box and the 20-year-old lashed a superb shot across Jack Butland from 20 yards.

But with just five minutes remaining Stoke got their reward – although it was handed to them by Courtois. Bojan Krkic sent Shaqiri clear down the right to swing in another cross straight onto the head of Diouf – and even he could not miss this time.Everton 2-3 West Ham
Ten-man Everton chucked away a 2-0 lead and missed a penalty as West Ham showed their battling qualities to hit back for a dramatic 3-2 win at Goodison Park.

Dimitr Payet inflicted pain on the Toffees with a 90th minute winner

Despite the 35th-minute dismissal of Kevin Mirallas the hosts, remarkably, were 2-0 up with three-quarters of the match gone thanks to goals from Romelu Lukaku and Aaron Lennon.

But in a huge swing of momentum Michail Antonio and substitute Diafra Sakho struck within four minutes of each other allowing Payet to nick three points in the 90th minute.

In an instant the match turned as first Antonio headed in Mark Noble’s cross and then Payet delivered for Sakho to equalise.

Sakho then turned provider as Payet once again grabbed the headlines for the Hammers.